Local residents travel to towns and cities around Iowa
A string of visits and trips reports Miss Kate Oltman, Miss Kate Stubler, Frank Locher, Gardner, Reichen, Felton, Bolton, Egan, Delay, Kiburz, Kehoe, Dautremont and others visiting Cascade, Anamosa, Monticello, Cedar Rapids, Chicago and Des Moines. The Monticello Creamery paid about 110000 to 260 patrons for cream and milk. Local helps promote a Texas trip with J A Voorhees inviting readers to join.
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Monticello
Monticello Local Notes Include Post Office Totals and Visits
Monticello residents are shown in many small items from visits by Mr and Mrs Matthew Campbell and others to relatives in Epworth Anamosa and Center Junction while local business and civic notices cover a record December post office take of 1036 dollars and a forthcoming rural carrier exam. Ervin Reed attends a Masonic school in Anamosa and Royal Neighbors plan a January 25 installation with a free lunch.
Ill health and town notes pack the week’s Local Record
The column reports William Fuller’s illness and thanks to Cyrus Heisey of Austin Minnesota for a fine prospectus. It records M A Rodman resigning as rural carrier on route 38 and a lack of promotion eligibles, with an expected examiner’s review. It covers court rulings, a missing money incident, a wedding in Anamosa, and hog price spikes in Chicago amid a harsh winter sequence with record lows and a thaw beginning.
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I. M. Rodman
Wrestler John Egger Tops Hopkinton Bout in 39 Minutes
John Egger won the wrestling match last night in Hopkinton by throwing Dennis Goldsmith and Louis Patterson in thirty nine minutes. He aimed to throw them both within an hour. In prelims Ben Kellum outclassed Harry Reeve in three rounds of boxing. Miss Helen Asenath Paine married January bth at her parents’ home in Fairbank Town to Mr Alexander Robertson. They will reside at 2805 Central Park Ave Chicago. Robertson serves as a Baptist minister.
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Mary Schmidt
Monticello
Eggie Schoon
Roanoke
Illinois
Sand Hill Church
William L. Schuetz
Gerd Schmidt
Ilinois
John Egger
Hopkinton
Dennis Goldsmith
Louis Patterson
Ben Kellum
Harry Reeve
Helen Asenath Paine
Fairbank
Town
Alexander Robertson
Roberson
Central Park Ave
Chicago
Robertson
C. Brazelton
Eva Brazelton
Des Moines
Mr. Braselton
Hoag Duster Company Increases Capital Stock
The Hoag Duster Company raises capital stock to 45000 to support growing business. A new factory will be built to handle increased work and expand into related feather duster lines.
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Hoag Duster Company
Schoolnotes and Social Plans At Local High School
Billy returns to the group as Nancy Bates comes back from South Dakota for the second week of term. Juniors hoped for a Saturday party but it collapsed. students plan gatherings after exams. Laura Moore hosts a party for students tomorrow. Senior class shifts to orations as a class play is abandoned. Harold Podlaski visits Wyoming. Weeks later she returns. Rev M A Breed substitutes for ill Jessie Warnecke. Mrs Breed fills in for Mrs Bolton this week. Edison and Victor phonographs advertised at Locher Brothers.
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Billy
Nancy Bates
South Dakota
Laura Moore
Harold Podlaski
Wyoming
M. A. Breed
Jessie Warnecke
Rock Island
Bolton
Monticello in January 1885 highlights
Twenty five years ago The Express reports a Monticello month of incidents. A new drug firm Tlarks & Kempf formed. Berryman died at 27 from consumption. A baby born to Mr and Mrs Enoch Young with two developed teeth. Several locals attended New Orleans exposition. The Jones County Farmers Institute met in Monticello led by LD. D. Young. AJ L. Fairbanks sold 110 hogs at 8.9 pounds each for 4.30 per hundred. Maria Jacobs died in Wayne township aged 77. County land assessments by township listed. Official papers chosen were The Express and Kurkea after circulation tally. Teachers association met. talks covered district schools reading language and numbers. Milen Young injured in a Muscatine railway collision. recovered after hospital stay and settlement with the railway.
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Monticello
the Express
Tlarks & Kempf
Berryman
Enoch Young
Leman Palmer
M. A. Wright
C. M. Corbin
Mary Marvin
New Orleons
Jones County Farmers’ Institute
LD. D. Young
AJ L. Fairbanks
Maria Jacobs
John
Henry Jacobs
Q. Hilers
August Jacobs
Wayne Township
Board of Supervisors
Cass
Castle Grove
Clay
Fairview
Croenfield
Hale
Jackson
Maddison
Oxford
Richland
Seatch Grove
Rome
Washington
Wayne
Wyoming
Board of
Monticello Sixpress
Anamosa Eureka
Anamosa Journal
Hexpress
Teachers’ Association
Fred Jackson
Hattie Hickox
Jennie Henderson
Laura I. Monroe
Milen Young
Peter Young
Muscatine
Miss Young
Davenport
Lectures on Christian Science to be given in Monticello Opera House
Professor Herman 8. Herring of Concord New Hampshire will lecture on Christian Science at the Monticello Opera House Sunday January 28 at 2 30 pm. He is a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship and the talk will present an authorized statement of church doctrine. Admission free.
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Herman 8. Herring
Concord
New Hampshire
Opera House
Monticello
Herring
Christian Science Board of
Christian Scientist Church
T Heron
Iowa College
Constantine Herring
Hahnemann
America
University of Pennsylvania
Department of
Mechanical Engineering
Jie
Philadelphia Board of Public Work
John Hopkins University
Baltimore
Boston
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J. W. Doxsee, Badkor and Proprietor
E. G. Burrichter
Hicks & Guyan
EF. G. Burrichter
Home News
Kate Oltman
Cascade
Harry Stubler
Anamosa
Kate Stubler
Frank Locher
Ladies Furs
Deutrick’s
Fred McLaughlin
Maquoketa
Gardner
Gottlieb Reichen
Ryan
Mrs. L. Oxley
Mt. Vernon, Illinois
O. J. Felton
Cedar Rapids
F. B. Bolton
H. M. Carpenter
Hannah Delay
Dubuque
Walter Kiburz
Kansas City
Outing Flanneis Deutrick
Martin Kehoe
Mary Howell
Minnie Starr
Oelwein
J. Heisey
Ed. Kohl
Kennebec
Cleveland Welch
Omaha
Nebraska
Bernard Kehoe
Minnesota
Hall Manufacturing Company
Frank Dautremont
Hugh Campbell
Epworth
Wm. Campbell
Michael Hofacre
Joseph M. Hofacre
Hattie Hogan
Leonard Kehoe
Fort Dodge
Lucy Riechart
DeWitt, Iowa
Samuel Eby
George L. Lovell
George L. Schoonover
William Porter
Vincent
Iowa
Ed Porter
Little Buckshot
Texas
J. A. Voorhees
Matthew Campbell
Mollie Hickman
J. D. Clark
Ralph Ewing
Sam Mecum
George Graham
Valentine Eby
Milwaukee
W. F. Kellogg
Center Junction
August Schatz
Flexibone
Deatrick’s
Ben Harms
Scott Farm
Ervin E. Reed
Masonic Lodge
Blanche Foley
Kalamazoo
Michigan
Bert Hanssen
Eimner Johnson
Alva Miller
Hettinger
North Dakota
Locher Bros
Mesars
Nelson Kiburz
Reuben Ely
John Marugg
Dennis Kehoe
Home Guards of the World
W. F. Kelleg
Iowa City
Jerome Brazelton
Express
William Eby
Hygiene, Colorado
John Beatty
Monticello Road
Mr. Cramer
Howard Hicks
Georgelein
Richland Township
Andrew Cassidy
J. P. Matthews
Ed Rice
F. T. Zimmerman
John Pond
Sioux City
Colton
Chris Egger
G. H. Egger
Bertha Wendlay
John Rieder
Will Jenkins
Sheridan
Gottlieb Bader
J. F. McConnell
Greeley
Colorado
Capt. J. McConnell
Page
Pond
Doutrick D. G Co
William Fuller
Fuller
Cyrus Heisey
Austin
Sheriff Hogan
Frances Sangi
Independence Asylum
W. Heaney
John O’brien
Mr. Heaney
Vega
Panhandle
Alonzo Hosford
Platte
Ki. J. Lightfoot
Orville Hosford
Robert Young
Pearl Heisey
Belmont College
Nashville
Tennessee
Mabel Inglis
Supreme Court
George Hogan
Reformatory
District Court
Rohn
Henry Paulsen
Gertrude Rigby
Sam Rigby
Samuel Aldrich
Leonard Aldrich
E. J. Wood
Gladys Tharp
George Holmes
Mary McMahon
Susie
John McMahon
Church of the Immaculate Conception
McMahon
Maroon
G C. W. Brown
Karl Renk
Karl
State of
de. J. EB. King
W. S. Chamberlain
J.S. Stacy
Oneida
Farley
William Martin
Margaret Martin
Gerald Hamil
Sylvester
Methodist Episcopal Church
Thomas Hamil
Heaney
Edison
Victor
Locher Brothers
Christian Science
Cc. S. Barker
Christian Science Society of
Engel Prull
Js. Prull
G. Hicks
Prull
Germany
If. Mardorf
Wayne Church
Poultry House
J. Farley
Wagner
Davis’ Hardware
Eilers & Bolton
C. H. Schipman
South Cedar ST
Lovell Block Store
Coates
Hicks & Ricklers
Globe Wernicke
A. G, Hanken
Roller Mills
Buck
Lang
L.H. Lang
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